What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it's curved like a road… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
The human heart would never pass the drunk test… If you took the human heart out of the human body and put… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
“Did you suppose that fornication was the straight line upwards that I'd been trying to find?” — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
These are the intensities that one cannot live with, that he has to outgrow if he wants to survive. But who can help grieving… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
“Well, you better look out. They got a new bureau in the guvamint files. It’s called U.W. Stands for Useless Wimmen. Tha’s secret plans… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
People go to the movies instead of moving. Hollywood characters are supposed to have all the adventures for everybody in America, while everybody in… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
They chatter together like birds on Cypress Hill, but all they say is 'Live, live, live, live, live!' It's all they've learned, it's the… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
You take it for granted that I am in something that I want to get out of. — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
I respect a person that has had to fight and howl for his decency. — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going. — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
Most of the confidence which I appear to feel, especially when influenced by noon wine, is only a pretense. — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
I cannot write any sort of story unless there is at least one character in it for whom I have physical desire. — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
I know so well what becomes of unmarried women who aren't prepared to occupy a position. I've seen such pitiful cases in the South… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
“The Jefferson is such a dignified hotel / There is no such thing.” — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
“A drinking man's someone who wants to forget he isn't still young and believing” — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
“As for me, no one will ever love me. But you could get used to me, couldn't you, Jimmy?” — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
